SURREY 鈥� Three cheers for 性视界传媒鈥檚 Flawless cheerleading team, which is headed to Florida for a world-championship event next week.
The 23 girls of the Champion Cheerleading program (Championcheerleading.ca) will fly to Orlando on April 27 to compete at the prestigeous Cheerleading Worlds competition for a second time.
They train for more than 10 hours a week to do a routine that lasts just two minutes, 30 seconds.
鈥淚n Florida, we鈥檒l perform the routine up to three times, and we鈥檙e hoping for three times, and we鈥檒l do it at least twice,鈥� team member Vanessa Wilson told the Now-Leader. 鈥淲e鈥檙e pretty good now, in the better half of the Canadian programs, and it鈥檚 pretty cool because we鈥檝e only been around (as a team) for two years.鈥�
Coaches of the team are Kate Wickham, Janice Bodnar and Emily Wright.
At 28, Wilson is a veteran on a team that includes cheerleaders as young as 13.
鈥淚鈥檝e personally been to worlds three times, and this will be my fourth year,鈥� said Wilson, who lives near 性视界传媒 Memorial Hospital. 鈥淚鈥檝e competed at Level 6 before, which is the highest level you can be. I came in as a veteran of the team, which is good to kind of help the lead the way and help some of the team members make the adjustment to the higher level (of competition).鈥�
Earlier this month, the level-five Flawless team competed at the Sea to Sky Championships held in Vancouver. Here鈥檚 a video of their performance:
They train at Championship Cheerleading鈥檚 facility in South 性视界传媒.
鈥淚t鈥檚 still pretty new, this team, especially at this level,鈥� Wilson reported. 鈥淚t鈥檚 our second year of competing at Level 5, and most of the girls started at Level 1 and have worked their way to this high level. It鈥檚 been a building process for the past couple of years, and for two years now we鈥檝e been able to compete at this level.鈥�
In Florida, the team鈥檚 goal is to 鈥渉it鈥� a zero-reduction routine, meaning no mistakes or falls.
鈥淲e鈥檙e making some upgrades to our routine before Worlds, just to be more competitive, but overall we just want to run clean, which is the goal of every cheerleading team 鈥� not to have a deduction routine,鈥� Wilson explained.
鈥淎t Worlds, the deductions are way heavier than they are here, so if you鈥檙e doing a lift, lifting people, and you fall, the deduction is worth, like, one here, but at Worlds it鈥檚 worth five, so they really reward teams that do well and hit. So that鈥檚 our goal this year, to go there and put on a really good performance and hit zero (deductions).鈥�
